Electric Circuits Session: 2019
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Electric Circuits
ODL Lab Manual 5
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Experiment No 8
OP-AMP Circuits
Objective:
In this experiment we will be able to achieve following advantages
1. Implement a practical AC electric circuit using Op-Amp in a circuit simulator.
2. To implement Op-amp as a Comparator
3. To implement a Op-amp based Summing circuit
Theoretical Background
You need to read chapter 4 of your text book before coming into the lab. Read out the
configuration and uses of op-amp as voltage follower, inverting amplifier, non-inverting amplifier.
Also download the datasheet of op-amp IC 741 from this link http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/
lm741.pdf and read its features before coming to the lab. An operational amplifier (often op-amp
or opamp) is a DC-coupled high-gain electronic voltage amplifier with a differential input and,
usually, a single-ended output. In this configuration, an op-amp produces an output potential
(relative to circuit ground) that is typically hundreds of thousands of times larger than the potential
difference between its input terminals. Operational amplifiers had their origins in analog
computers, where they were used to perform mathematical operations in many linear, non-linear
and frequency-dependent circuits. The popularity of the op-amp as a building block in analog
circuits is due to its versatility. Due to negative feedback, the characteristics of an op-amp circuit,
its gain, input and output impedance, bandwidth etc. are determined by external components and
have little dependence on temperature coefficients or manufacturing variations in the op-amp itself.
Op-amps are among the most widely used electronic devices today, being used in a vast array of
consumer, industrial, and scientific devices. Op-amps may be packaged as components, or used as
elements of more complex integrated circuits. Fig.1 shows the 8-DIP package of a 741 Type OP-
AMP with its terminals labeled.
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Fig 01: Pin configuration of Op-Amp LM741
Laboratory Tasks
1) Build the circuit shown in Fig. 2. This is an open loop voltage comparator. It will be compare
the two inputs and produce +Vcc or –Vcc on the output depending on whichever input is
greater. Set both Vcc voltages to +/- 12 V
2) Connect the inverting terminal, V-, of the voltage follower to nodes a, b, c, d of the voltage
divider. These will be our reference voltages. Connect a voltage source to non-inverting
terminal of the circuit and set values given in Table 01. Measure Vout and comment on the
results.
Table 01
V- V+ Vout
Va +1 V
Vb -4 V
Vc +7 V
Vd 5sin(2*pi*50*t)
Vd 15sin(2*pi*50*t)
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3) Patch the circuit shown in Fig. 3. This is called a summing configuration.
4) Measure the output for input voltages specified in table 02
5) Comment on the results.
Figure 3
Table 02
Rf / Rin V1 V2 V3 Vout
5k / 5k 5V 5V 5V
5k / 1k 1V 1V 1V
1k / 5k 25 V 25 V 25 V
5k / 5k 5sin(2*pi*50*t) 7.5sin(2*pi*50*t) 2.5sin(2*pi*50*t)
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